Land Use Mapping of the Guangdong–Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area Based on a New Approach at 30 m Resolution for the Years 1976 to 2020
Multicategory land use data of high spatiotemporal resolution and large scale are crucial for studying regional ecological and environmental changes and urbanization impacts as well as for sustainable development planning. Currently available public data products include those of high spatial resolu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IEEE
2025-01-01
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| Series: | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing |
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| Online Access: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10827814/ |
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| Summary: | Multicategory land use data of high spatiotemporal resolution and large scale are crucial for studying regional ecological and environmental changes and urbanization impacts as well as for sustainable development planning. Currently available public data products include those of high spatial resolution global land use temporally limited to a single or short period, or global annual land cover products in which only a single land use type is depicted, such that regional characteristics are overlooked. In either case, fine-scale annual variation over longer time spans may not be reflected. In this study, the Google Earth Engine platform, Landsat satellite imagery, and a substantial number of manually interpreted samples were used to develop a dataset of annual land use changes in the Guangdong–Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) at a 30 m resolution for the years 1976 to 2020. This dataset, termed Annual Land Use/Cover of the Greater Bay Area (LUC-GBA), was used to analyze the annual land use variation in 11 cities within the GBA. The high level of accuracy achieved with the LUC-GBA dataset was evidenced by an overall accuracy (OA) of 93.9% in 2020. The OA of interannual classification models ranged from 83.9% to 93.9%, and the kappa coefficients from 0.805 to 0.923. These results indicate that the LUC-GBA dataset effectively reflects the surface cover distribution and interannual dynamic evolution of the land area in the GBA at a 30 m spatial resolution, thus providing reliable data support for land surface process research and related applications. |
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| ISSN: | 1939-1404 2151-1535 |